Minister’s Blog 1 March 2020

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Oscar Wilde reckoned he could resist anything except temptation. We are now in Lent, this period of forty days that reflect the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness being tempted and tested. It’s a time when the church prepares for Easter by engaging in a time of self-reflection and we begin this week by…

Minister’s Blog 23 February 2020

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In the Shakespeare play, “Twelfth Night”, a young woman, Viola, is shipwrecked and disguises herself as a man in order to enter into the service of the Duke of Orsino. The Duke despatches Viola, now disguised as a man, to the woman the Duke loves, Olivia, in order to convince Olivia of the Duke’s love…

Minister’s Blog 16 February 2020

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“Where sits our sullen, sulky dame, gathering her brows like a gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm” Robert Burns, “Tam O’Shanter” (1790) It’s a powerful image that Burns creates here. A wife waiting up late at night for the return of her drunken husband in order to give him a piece of…

Minister’s Blog 9 February 2020

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Despite eating thousands of carrots over the course of my lifetime, I still cannot see in the dark. It turns out that I need some sort of light to see where I am going and where things are. My ankles, knees and furniture can attest to this truth whenever I get up in the middle…